Every once in a while, I get a few openings for new clients for content. Fortunately for anyone reading this, I know have a few openings for individuals in need of a phenomenal content writer. Typically, I work with clients over a long period of time and most of my clients stay with me for months and I do have a client with whom I have been working for about a year. I am looking to fill out my content generation schedule and add approximately ~10k-15k words per week to my work roster. Preferably, I am looking for individuals that want a longer term arrangement with a content writer. With that said, I am more than happy to take on larger projects that may be a one time thing though I have found most people return for additional content after receiving the first batch. My standard rate is $0.015 per word. You are probably sitting there and wondering what you will get for this rate. An excellent question! In addition to being a native English speaker, I have extremely good grammatical skills, The Elements of Style and I are good friends, I have a prodigious vocabulary which can be tailored to your needs, and I have extensive personal knowledge on a wide variety of subjects. Additionally, my average turn around time for content is between 3 to 5 days depending on the amount of content requested. If, however, you are in dire need of content right away, I will gladly expedite orders for an additional fee. I have had clients in need of 20k words of content in less than 24 hours and they have received those orders in time. If you have any questions, please feel free to post in this thread or send me a PM and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Also, please remember that space is limited so do not wait to get in touch!
I am interested in the position.I have been reviewing for a long time and also spent a fair share of college researching. I have a knee injury so I have all the free time to dedicate to you're business. I am reliable and looking for new experiences. I would like more details it is my first time on here! Bridget421@yahoo.com
Yeah... I don't think anyone is going to believe you have a college degree when you're unable to use the proper "your." Of course, this is completely ignoring the fact that you did not even understand what this post is advertising.
Her post is useful in other ways - it shows that not all "native speakers" can write, or read, well. Bridget and Omnibus, nothing personal. But there are a lot of posts here where people use the badge of "native writer" as a mark of accomplishment. A writer, or anyone for that matter, should be judged on the quality of the work they deliver, or their samples. Otherwise you will definitely lose out on many good to great writers. I acknowledge that sometimes native writers can write better than non-natives on topics such as "what not to do on a first date" just because they know their culture first hand. But there are innumerable other topics where cultural context plays no or a very small part, and which anyone with the right skills can write on. Bridget, I wish you well. A word of advise - always proofread whatever you are submitting to the forum, or a client. edit: I wish Omnibus well too!
Native speakers DO have a great advantage over non-natives. It has been well documented that unless an individual is bilingual from a young age, gaining fluency later in life will never result in the same level of understanding as someone that has spoken the language since childhood. Obviously, quality is the most important factor but being a native speaker -- all other things being equal -- will result in a quality and fluidity that is impossible to match if you are a non-native speaker.
Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Joseph Conrad and countless other English writers were not born with an English background. ~60,000 Indians study in the US in any given year, and I can bet a pretty sum that their average score in English is way higher than the US average. For anyone to claim that everyone with English as their native language is better than just about anyone who does not have that circumstance, flies in the face of so much evidence that it hardly even needs a rebuttal. But if you claim that native speakers are better on average than non-native speaker, then thats just a statistical observation. And it does not mean that a native speaker will always have better grasp of the language than one who is not. At the end of the day, its just a heuristic, and one that is unnecessary when a client can as easily read your samples or past work, and judge for himself/herself.
Don't blame me. Your statements are so vague, that you could claim you were right despite whatever anyone might present as a counterpoint. > It has been well documented that unless an individual is bilingual from a young age, gaining fluency later in life will never result in the same level of understanding as someone that has spoken the language since childhood. What is a "young age"? What age is it? Isn't there even one non-native writers here who started with English before they were that age? > gaining fluency later in life will never result in the same level of understanding Are you saying this is true for just about anyone? if so, let me just say that there are millions of "native" English speakers in ghettos and stately homes of US who could not best me in SAT scores or any other metric of measuring proficiency in the English language. And I am hardly the best non-native writer you could come across. But maybe you will say, thats not what you are saying. In which case yes, I did not at all get what you were saying.